PROBE: Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering with VLM Agents

arXiv:2608.17129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language Models (VLMs) excel at 2D grounding, spatial reasoning and agentic tool-based planning in static scenes. However, consider asking a home robot "Is my medication still in the cabinet?" The answer may be physically hidden behind a row of containers that must first be moved aside. Answering such questions in real-world cluttered environments requires reasoning in dynamic scenes: distractors must be manipulated to reveal occluded object...